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Mesoscale Discussion 2016

September 24, 20195 counties in Michigan; Houston County, Winona County, Minnesota; 28 counties in Wisconsin

The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at Sep 24, 2019, 10:01 PM EDT for 5 counties in Michigan; Houston County, Winona County, Minnesota; 28 counties in Wisconsin. It was in force for 119 min.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued
Sep 24, 2019, 10:01 PM EDT (02:01 UTC)
Expired
Sep 25, 2019, 12:00 AM EDT
In force
119 min
Issued by
the Storm Prediction Center
All 35 counties

Baraga County, MI, Gogebic County, MI, Houghton County, MI, Iron County, MI, Ontonagon County, MI, Houston County, MN, Winona County, MN, Adams County, WI, Ashland County, WI, Buffalo County, WI, Chippewa County, WI, Clark County, WI, Eau Claire County, WI, Florence County, WI, Forest County, WI, Iron County, WI, Jackson County, WI, Juneau County, WI, La Crosse County, WI, Langlade County, WI, Lincoln County, WI, Marathon County, WI, Marquette County, WI, Monroe County, WI, Oneida County, WI, Portage County, WI, Price County, WI, Rusk County, WI, Sawyer County, WI, Taylor County, WI, Trempealeau County, WI, Vilas County, WI, Waupaca County, WI, Waushara County, WI, Wood County, WI

The radar

The La Crosse radar (KARX), 141 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:02 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

The nearest sounding before it

Green Bay/Straub, WI (KGRB), launched 00:00Z, 2.0 hours before the alert went out and 193 km from the middle of its area. This is the routine balloon launch nearest before it, the air the forecaster had in hand, not a measurement taken for the alert.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Green Bay/Straub, WI at 00:00Z on 2019-09-25Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 195 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Green Bay/Straub, WI at 00:00Z on 2019-09-25The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 227 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.
Mixed-layer CAPE
195 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-184 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1635 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
34 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
227 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
259 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.1

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The text

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SPC that day

Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Sep 24, 8:17 PM EDTTornado WatchSPCBaraga, Gogebic, Houghton, Iron, Ontonagon4 hr
Sep 24, 11:48 PM EDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCBaraga, Gogebic, Houghton, Iron, Ontonagon117 min
Sep 24, 8:45 PM EDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCOlmsted, Wabasha, Winona60 min

Nearby

Mesoscale Discussions in Wisconsin, 2019Mesoscale Discussions in Michigan, 2019Mesoscale Discussions in Minnesota, 2019Every mesoscale discussion in 2019

Sources

The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.